grandstand play
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This isn’t a grandstand play on my part; I’ve discovered—and you can see it in other entertainers—when they don’t reach out to the audience, nothing happens.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2012
Harry Walker's circus catch was not a grandstand play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The current flap over the sudden awakening of these men to the un-American nature of their clubs seems to smack more of the old grandstand play than of any enlightenment.
From Time Magazine Archive
So I had to make the grandstand play.
From Bruce by Albert Payson Terhune
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